Parents are just good people, aren't they? I mean, being a parent is so hard. I am sitting here blogging with 4 kids going wild around me. And I'm supposed to be trying to find a job/residency spot in the US in my time off, you know when I'm not working on my PhD and not running or cleaning or cooking or comforting a sick child. Blah, blah blah. Seriously - every parent must feel like they work harder than every other parent and their spouse, don't they? But they don't. We all just work really hard and then sometimes we're lazy.

Are people who fall in love seriously meant to have kids together?

Sometimes SR and I get glimpses of the way life used to be. For those who don't know, I was dating him for 3 months before I got pregnant. We went out on a 9km run together on Saturday, at 4.40 min per km speed (had to get a training run in) while we discussed the history of the Republican Party in the US. It was great. We even added some fartleks as a sort of race. (okay, not like we can ever really race each other)

The next day we tried a 15km at this same pace and I started screaming at him when he told me to stop looking at my Garmin. I was probably just "hangry" as Danni would say. I wish I had more time to just tell him he's a good dad and that I am thankful for his help. And that we could go on a running vacation together, just the two of us. But people make choices and we chose to have kids. And we love them.

Writing Opportunity
I was contacted about writing for a website called "Über Mother Runner" http://ubermotherrunner.wordpress.com/. It's about mothers who take on ultimate running/exercise challenges and write about it. I applied to be a writer and I thought it would be awesome if some of my favorite bloggers would write for this site, too. Only 1 article every 3 months. That's doable, right? It would be fun to have a resource for likeminded running moms.

As long as we're talking about writing, I've been meaning to establish someBlogging Rules:

1. Do not write like an expert trainer, dietician or coach if you are not (or if you are). ie. skip the posts where you try to give advice and please just tell your story. Humor is encouraged.

2. If necessary, look up the word "random" and realize it can never be used before the word "thoughts" as nothing we imagine could be random. Please only use random when referring to coin flipping or the numbers specifically generated by a computer program in a random fashion.

3. Please do not! overuse! the exclamation point! ie. blog title "Today I went on a run!" or "Friends!"

4. Please do not be beautiful or look professional or have sponsors. I realize this may be hard for some of you...

13 comments:

I think I may qualify...and no, in my opinion neither of them is hot, glasses or not, but I cherish Jurek and am ok with Tony. And ah, yes, parenting really sucks most of the time and I wonder why was that I wanted to have children so much - and that's beyond them being babies and not having adult vacations (those I could handle). It's the years that you still have ahead of you that are really daring.

I give the photo a 10. That Candice chick is gorgeous though! I don't feel like I work harder as a parent than anyone else. I think parenting is super hard though. I have a co-worker who had triplets, knowing someone with triplets really puts things in perspective. Triplets are so much harder than single babies (at least if you're comparing relatively healthy babies). But it's all hard no matter what...

I think I follow your blogging rules, but not on purpose. I totally want to look like lady winning the race (or Candice for that matter)! And if it ever happens I'm posting the pic! ;)

Oh, that's not true! You're just being hard on yourself! I often feel the same way, so I understand how you feel, but really we love them and do the best we can. And it's not that I think a parent of triplets works harder, it's that they don't get all the same "happy" times we get. They are constantly focused on the babies basics needs that each baby doesn't get the same snuggles as a single baby would get without other adults involved. There are only so many hours in a day after all.

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My name is Tracy. I am a physician scientist from the USA, living with my husband and two young boys in Denmark. I work as a post-doc fellow at Næstved Hospital. I have a scientific interest in vision loss, vision loss during exercise, exercise, running during pregnancy, MAF training as well as nutrition and health for athletes. I also have a love for music, physics, statistics, cycling, yoga, cross-country skiing, bla bla bal.

I was a member of Team USA at the IAU World Championships in Ultra Trail Running in 2013 in Wales. I am now training to run with Team Denmark at the IAU World Championships in Annency, France in May 2015.